Microsoft word viewer in wine

Because I regularly receive .docx files, which are poorly handled by Libreoffice, I was trying to install the Microsoft word viewer in Wine (don't tell me I should educate people to send me other files formats, I have tried this but it doesn't work in my case). The word viewer install fine but not the compatibility pack that should allow to open the docx files (it install but then I have always an error message trying to open docx files). I know by experience I shouldn't expect too much of Wine but the web are full of people for which this configuration apparently worked. I wonder if someone has succeed to have the Word Viewer to work (maybe some tricky configuration with native/builtin DLL).

I tried to rebuild wine using only the 32 bit versions (Archlinux package the 32bits and 64 bits versions in the same packages) and it works fine.
It was a policy of Archlinux not to patch upstream softwares (except when it is really needed) and I think a shame it does not stick to that. This kind of hybrid 32/64 bits packages was an undocumented hack, trying to have both files at the same time. The way Archlinux did it was undocumented. Trying to improve upstream packages leads to bugs that are distro specifics and are thus less likely to be noticed. I was on the point to report the bug upstream (because it was a regression) and now I know this makes no sense. Having a distro with full of patched package make it impossible to report a bug upstream unless you have recompiled the vanilla version yourself.
Updated: settings WINEARCH to win32 solve the problem. It is still obscure what happens if you don't (all programs opens and "run" but you have an error message when you try to open .docx files).
Last edited by olive (2014-06-13 08:41:54)

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